金门大桥广场

公司：	Surfacedesign, Inc.	类型：	景观
地区：	美国	标签：	广场空间

项目坐落在旧金山一侧的金门大桥旁，广场为了纪念金门大桥的名字而命名。在这里，海湾和海洋的门槛处，天空、桥梁和水雾浑然天成，包围了基地，让游客发可以在此欣赏这种壮观的景色。

Nestled on the San Francisco side of the Golden Gate Bridge, the 75th Anniversary Plaza honors the bridge and bears its name. Here at the threshold of the bay and the ocean is the dramatic collision of sky, bridge, and fog, enveloping the site and allowing visitors to experience this phenomenon viscerally.

这个广场和游客中心讲述了大桥的设计和建造过程，成为海湾边缘一个新的文化和生态中心。这块场地曾经是毗邻过路桥收费站的以汽车为主的基础设施的服务空间，现在已经转变为一个目的地、一个新的视野框架，以及一个具有历史悠久的地方。一个新的展馆展示了以前公众无法进入的历史文物，而广场展示了桥梁工程师约瑟夫•施特劳斯的雕像，强调了他在桥梁概念中的关键作用。而广场上的其他综合的教学元素，包括马林海岬的地形模型和金门湾的水深测量，能邀请用户以新的触觉方式参与地区景观。

This plaza and visitor center tell the story of the bridge’s design and construction, emerging as a new cultural and ecological hub at the bay’s edge. Once an afterthought to the automobile-dominated infrastructure adjacent to bridge toll booths, the site has been transformed into a place of arrival, a destination for meeting, and a frame for a new spectrum of views of, and from, this historic place. A new pavilion exhibits historic artifacts previously not accessible to the public, while the plaza displays a statue of bridge engineer Joseph Strauss, emphasizing his pivotal role in the conception of the bridge. Integrated didactic elements, including a model of the topography of the Marin Headlands and the bathymetry of the bay at the Golden Gate invite users to engage with the regional landscape in new tactile ways.

广场的布局本身就是对桥梁工程奇迹的研究。中央广场的狭窄比例呼应了桥塔的细长尺度和尺寸，明暗交替的铺路方式反映了电缆的影子，因为它们向后退去。由窄模组铺路机组成的长横带让人想起由许多窄轨电缆组成的支撑大桥的巨大电缆。以前的停车场被植被遮蔽，新的电缆俯瞰广场附近的特点是桥梁电缆的横截面朝向与桥梁和从未见过的海湾和桥梁。

The layout of the plaza itself is a study in the marvel of the bridge’s engineering. The narrow proportions of the central plaza echo the slender scale and dimensions of the bridge towers, and an alternating pattern of light and dark pavers mirrors the shadows of the cables as they recede into the distance. The long transverse bands made up of narrow module pavers are reminiscent of the massive cables supporting the bridge, which are themselves composed of many narrow-gauge cables. Formerly a parking lot obscured by vegetation, the new Cable Overlook adjacent to the plaza features a cross section of the bridge cable oriented in-line with the bridge and never-before-seen views of the bay and bridge.

一个新的独立的多模态步道网络有助于促进交通和场地内及周边的流通，同时为骑自行车的人和行人提供新的景观视野。整个场地的种植都是原生的，从场地分水岭内收集的种子进行繁殖，这些种子是在金门国家游憩区苗圃内培育的，然后移植到现场。作为一个标志性建筑，这座桥无疑是美丽的，但只有在游客的参与下，这座桥才显得真正雄伟，成为文化景观的一部分。这个广场和游客中心为城市提供了一个新的户外客厅，同时也是第一个现场中心，致力于讲述桥梁的故事。

A new separated multi-modal trail network helps facilitate transit and circulation in and around the site, while providing new vistas for cyclists and pedestrians alike. Planting throughout the site is all native, propagated from seeds collected within the watershed of the site that were cultivated within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area nurseries before being transplanted on-site. The bridge is undeniably beautiful as an icon, but it is only when animated by visitors that it is truly majestic, becoming a part of the cultural landscape. This plaza and visitor center present a new outdoor living room for the city along with the first on-site center dedicated to telling the stories of the bridge and its creation.